ringing in ears, dizziness (& book by Volker Scheid?)

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Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:51:17 -0800, " " <zrosenbe wrote:

 

>> Clearly the more sophisticated practitioners and teachers of CM, such as

Dr. John Shen, Michael Broffman and Jeffrey Yuen use what we can call this

'expanded' framework of Chinese medicine. … The upshot is that there is

an almost mathematical relationship between factors contributing to disease

and their treatment, and that a successful practice of classical Chinese

medicine requires a deep understanding of time, space and quality to

develop sophisticated treatment strategies.

 

Dr. Leon Hammer's pulse book and teaching system is testimony to your point

on the " mathematical relationship " (I would call it a sort of calculus of

diagnosis). Namely his study with Dr. Shen revealed that the Dr. Shen

actually used a very logical approach to diagnosis (largely, though not

entirely centered on the pulse). Dr. Shen, with his vast experience, could

apply his process, however, almost instantaneously. He apparently had

something that could be called a " heuristic " system, allowing him to

shortcut what for most of us would by a more lengthy logical process, using

his accumulated library of elaborated patterns. Dr. Hammer, for pedagogical

reasons, insists on a lengthy and comprehensive pulse reading and a

multi-dimensional interpretative process. And I believe even advanced

students/practitioners of this system largely adhere to that model.

 

By the way, I just got my hands on a book - " in

Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis " , by Volker Scheid. At first I

thought this might be the book you (Z'ev) referred to several months ago,

as forthcoming in 2004. But it's publishing date is listed as 2002. Just

getting into it, it appears a gold mine of information and perspective. If

anyone brought this book up earlier in this forum, I must have missed it.

If it's not already passe to most in this forum, I will probably be

reporting more on it as I get into it.

 

 

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Chris,

 

On Jan 23, 2005, at 1:58 AM, wrote:

 

>

> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:51:17 -0800, " "

> <zrosenbe wrote:

>

>

> Dr. Leon Hammer's pulse book and teaching system is testimony to your

> point

> on the " mathematical relationship " (I would call it a sort of

> calculus of

> diagnosis). Namely his study with Dr. Shen revealed that the Dr. Shen

> actually used a very logical approach to diagnosis (largely, though

> not

> entirely centered on the pulse). Dr. Shen, with his vast experience,

> could

> apply his process, however, almost instantaneously. He apparently had

> something that could be called a " heuristic " system, allowing him to

> shortcut what for most of us would by a more lengthy logical process,

> using

> his accumulated library of elaborated patterns. Dr. Hammer, for

> pedagogical

> reasons, insists on a lengthy and comprehensive pulse reading and a

> multi-dimensional interpretative process. And I believe even advanced

> students/practitioners of this system largely adhere to that model.

 

There are some interesting things in Hammer's pulse book, but I find

its usefulness limited by Dr. Hammer's lack of access to Chinese

language materials, and the sometimes poor choice of terms to describe

pulses in the text. But I know what you are talking about. A lot of

the material is more in-depth than anything else in English.

 

>

> By the way, I just got my hands on a book - " in

> Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis " , by Volker Scheid. At

> first I

> thought this might be the book you (Z'ev) referred to several months

> ago,

> as forthcoming in 2004. But it's publishing date is listed as 2002.

> Just

> getting into it, it appears a gold mine of information and

> perspective. If

> anyone brought this book up earlier in this forum, I must have missed

> it.

> If it's not already passe to most in this forum, I will probably be

> reporting more on it as I get into it.

>

 

The Scheid book I am referring to is not this one, which is great, but

a new historical text that Eastland Press will be putting out later

this year.